Silver Overlord

After a while, Yan Liqiang swallowed a lump in his throat with difficulty and asked a question. "How can this create life and command reincarnation?"

"You will know it once you place your hands on the Heavenly Stone!"

Heeding Fu Guang’s words, Yan Liqiang walked toward the large rhombus-shaped crystal and placed his hand on it. Subsequently, an incredible scene appeared before him as he did so.

Blobs of red lights akin to the size of ping-pong balls abruptly poured out from the Heavenly Stone and began to swirl around Yan Liqiang. He reached out to grab ahold of the light and managed to catch one in his hand. As he took a closer look, he noticed there was actually a face inside the light blob. That face was quite distinct and very familiar to Yan Liqiang. This face belonged to Old Master Hong Chengshou from the Hong Clan whom Yan Liqiang had killed at Liuhe Town.

"Ah..." Yan Liqiang was startled. He loosened his grip, allowing the light blob to drift away from his hand.

Yan Liqiang quickly regained his composure and saw another light blob flying toward him. He reached out again and grabbed the light in his hands. After inspecting it closely, the face on this light blob was the face of a Shatu person. Yan Liqiang recognized this person as well. That night when Yan Liqiang transformed himself into King Cobra, this person was one of the Shatu people that he had eliminated in the warehouse at Pingxi City.

Yan Liqiang released this light blob and caught another passing blob. With a careful inspection, the face inside the third light blob belonged to King Cobra, whom Yan Liqiang had killed in an ambush in the pine forest. The real King Cobra was the one hiding behind the mask all along.

He then turned to look at the other light blobs. Almost all of the light blobs contained faces in their centers. All these people were, without exception, killed by Yan Liqiang — a bunch of people from the Hong Clan, and a large number of Shatu people.

"What... what’s going on with these light blobs?" Yan Liqiang asked Fu Guang, shocked.

"These light blobs are the souls of those you have killed. When you killed them, the Heavenly Stone captured and absorbed their souls and the life forces that were attached to the cores of their souls. Other than the inability to create souls, the Heavenly Stone can create all sorts of bodies of any species. Therefore, new life will be born when these souls and bodies created by the Heavenly Stone merge together. Those you have killed were all humans. While you can create life that is not limited to humans, you can decide what they will become in the future. This is reincarnation."

Yan Liqiang was dumbfounded. "Isn’t this the same as being reborn?"

"More or less! However, there is a difference. If one is being reborn, they will have to start as an embryo or an infant, whereas if one is reincarnated through the Heavenly Stone, it isn’t necessary for one to start from being an infant. You can choose the body of any species and any age..."

"Isn’t this just going to give myself more trouble if I let them be reborn into something else after I have killed them? If they recognize me, they will definitely try to get even with me!"

"They won’t. When their souls were confined by the Heavenly Stone, their consciousness and memories were already wiped clean. If you let them be reborn, regardless of what they will become, you will be connected to them spiritually and you can become their natural master and leader. You will become their god and they will never betray you. Even if you let them die, they will not bat an eye."

What the flying f*ck, this is simply too awesome!

This moment reminded Yan Liqiang of the games he had played in his previous life, which were World of Warcraft, The Three Kingdoms, Red Alert, and so forth. This Heavenly Shrine was just like a riot arsenal in these games. As long as those lives were created by the Heavenly Shrine, they would listen to his orders. If he had his hands on this thing earlier, he wouldn’t have had to worry about the sh*tty Ye Clan and the Prefectural Governor. With millions of troops storming at the Ye Clan, he would have been able to wipe them out in an instant.

However, after getting excited for a short while, Yan Liqiang quickly regained his composure. There was no such thing as free lunch in this world. Not to mention, even producing offensive units in games required resources to do so. The ability to create life in the Heavenly Shrine must have required other conditions for it to work. He couldn’t possibly have been able to create various lives continuously at the cost of nothing.

"What other conditions are there besides these souls and the core life force that you mentioned to create life?" Yan Liqiang asked Fu Guang a question.

"After you have fulfilled the above conditions, the most crucial step to create life is to activate the seal of life of the different species of your choosing inside the Heavenly Stone. As for activating the seal of life, you need to infuse the energy condensed from the dantian inside your body into the Heavenly Stone!"

"How do I operate it?"

"Didn’t you just touch the Heavenly Stone? How do you still not know about it yet?" Fu Guang looked at Yan Liqiang, bewildered.

Yan Liqiang was at loss. He looked at his hands and said, "I just touched the Heavenly Stone for a moment and those light blobs immediately flew out from it. Nothing else happened!"

"Ah..." Fu Guang suddenly slapped his head, stunned. "I am sorry. It’s been a very long time. I almost forgot this one thing — your powers are too weak. Among the 3,936,884,329 entrants who were lucky enough to enter the Heavenly Shrine in the past, your powers are considered to be the weakest. Because of that, despite the fact that you touched the Heavenly Stone just now, you are unable to communicate with it properly. If you can concentrate on your spiritual force, then your spiritual force will be linked with the Heavenly Stone the moment you touch it. You will be able to understand everything through your thoughts and finish everything..."

Yan Liqiang was embarrassed upon hearing that. Among the 3,936,884,329 entrants of the Heavenly Stone, he was the weakest. Was this possible?

"You don’t have to doubt it. It is precisely as it is..." Fu Guang seemed like he was able to read Yan Liqiang’s thoughts, "Even though your powers are slightly weak, you are the first absolute owner of this Heavenly Stone in a real sense. Those who came here before you only had finite number of chances to use the Heavenly Stone. Even a more powerful being had extremely limited chances of using the Heavenly Stone in their lifetime, which is why they did not dare to waste such an opportunity. In spite of that, the Heavenly Stone is right in front of you now!"

"What do I do now? Does this mean I can’t use it anymore?"

"Just wait for a moment!" With that, Fu Guang closed his eyes, and a ray of red light appeared on his body. He finally opened his eyes after half a minute and pointed at the Heavenly Stone, allowing the red light to vanish into the Heavenly Stone. "That will do. I’ve given you a little assistance so that you can use the Heavenly Stone through a method you can understand. Try putting your hand on the Heavenly Stone again..."

Yan Liqiang listened to Fu Guang’s advice and placed his hand on the Heavenly Stone once again.

At that brief moment, countless information regarding the Heavenly Stone abruptly flooded into Yan Liqiang’s mind. Yan Liqiang instantly formed a strange resonance with the Heavenly Stone. After that, an amazing mechanism that resembled a celestial globe that Zhang Heng had invented simultaneously appeared inside Yan Liqiang’s sea of consciousness.

There were many rings surrounding the golden mechanism. The outermost ring was golden, and the golden wheel on this ring had words that said ’Available number of souls’ inscribed on it. There were also 47 head silhouettes behind those words. These shadows were the souls with the faces of the group of people from the Hong Clan and the Shatu people that had been confined and absorbed by the Heavenly Stone itself. Moreover, there was a pointer on the outside of this golden wheel. It could be moved around the wheel, and it essentially gave the option to choose one of the faces on the wheel.

On the inner ring inside the golden wheel, there were two colors — red and blue — each occupied their respective halves of the wheel. Numerous scales and numbers were etched on the red half-circle wheel and the blue half-circle wheel. Each of these half-circle wheels had two different colored pointers that were pointing at zero.

The largest value on top of the red half-circle wheel with ’Available vitality points’ written on it was 4678.

The largest value on top of the blue half-circle wheel with ’Available intelligence points’ written on it was 4145.

In between these two wheels, there was another wheel that was gray in color. ’Own innate ability’ was written on it, and it also had a few pointers on it. Unfortunately, the gray wheel was currently immovable and unusable. There was nothing on top as there was no list of options to choose from.

Inside the gray wheel was a large, round ball whose diameter was several feet long. Just like a crystal, the ball was transparent and it could be moved too. There were words inscribed on the ball that said ’Able to activate the seal of life’. There were various slideways and calibrations above the ball. Moreover, the shadow of a dog faintly flashed inside the ball.

"I activated your first seal of life and chose a dog for you. Take it as a gift from me. You can give it a try!" Fu Guang’s voice appeared right beside Yan Liqiang’s ears.

Hearing Fu Guang’s voice, Yan Liqiang was unable to contain his excitement and began to operate the wheels.

First, Yan Liqiang turned the pointer on the outermost ring of the golden wheel to a Shatu person with a repulsive face. After that, he moved the red and blue half-circle wheels, allowing the pointers of each half-circle wheel to point at 100.

That gray wheel was currently unusable, and there was no option to choose anything. So he just skipped that directly.

Next, he began to move each of the slideways and gears around the large crystal ball in the middle.

The dog’s shadow continued to change inside the crystal ball as Yan Liqiang proceeded to move the slideways and gears. The shadow of the dog shifted to a male dog with khaki color fur. The size of the dog was similar to that of a normal dog. He then selected the age of the dog as two years old.

After he was done, Yan Liqiang thought for a moment and looked at the pointers on the two red and blue half-circle wheels. He felt that he had gone a bit overboard, so he turned each of those pointers back to 50 again.

Because of the Heavenly Stone’s standard of evaluation, the intelligence and vitality points of a normal person were estimated to be at the average value of 100. These two types of energies were the core life forces taken by the souls of those people inside the Heavenly Stone that he had killed. The value of these points would then be used to determine the intellectual and physical abilities of the new life form.

He had killed 47 people in total, yet the values of those two life forces that were confined and absorbed by the Heavenly Stone were less than 5000 respectively, which was still lower than the Heavenly Stone’s average standard. Yan Liqiang felt that the dog could be very powerful for having half the value of a normal person, which would be 50 for each category. However, he also feared that something bad might happen if he were to truly allow a dog to become this demonic.

"Now, when you go back to the real world to activate the Heavenly Stone’s ability, it will only take five minutes for you to see what the dog you created looks like!"

"I wanted to go to the Heavenly Realm to check things out first. Let’s talk about it when I return. I won’t have a peace of mind until I see it..."

"Alright then. You should already have knowledge of everything you need to know here. My mission is done anyway. Goodbye, young man. I look forward to your splendid performance, and I hope that we will be able to see each other again one day..." As soon as Fu Guang was done talking, his entire body began to disappear right in front of Yan Liqiang like air bubbles.

Yan Liqiang was stunned. He looked at the empty Heavenly Shrine for a while before heading toward the gates of the Heavenly Realm in the end. His entire silhouette was enveloped in that white light in an instant...